Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative PerspectiveUniv of North Carolina Press, 20 janv. 2011 - 312 pages Unlike most other emerging South American democracies, Venezuela has not succumbed to a successful military coup d'etat during four decades of democratic rule. What drives armed forces to follow the orders of elected leaders? And how do emerging democracies gain that control over their military establishments? Harold Trinkunas answers these questions in an examination of Venezuela's transition to democracy following military rule and its attempts to institutionalize civilian control of the military over the past sixty years, a period that included three regime changes. Trinkunas first focuses on the strategic choices democratizers make about the military and how these affect the internal civil-military balance of power in a new regime. He then analyzes a regime's capacity to institutionalize civilian control, looking specifically at Venezuela's failures and successes in this arena during three periods of intense change: the October revolution (1945-48), the Pact of Punto Fijo period (1958-98), and the Fifth Republic under President Hugo Chavez (1998 to the present). Placing Venezuela in comparative perspective with Argentina, Chile, and Spain, Trinkunas identifies the bureaucratic mechanisms democracies need in order to sustain civilian authority over the armed forces. |
Table des matières
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The Failure of Democratization in Venezuela 19451948 | 27 |
Strategizing Civilian Control | 62 |
4 Statecraft and Military Subordination in Venezuela 19591973 | 110 |
Resisting Challenges from the Military in Venezuela 1992 | 156 |
6 Revolutionizing CivilMilitary Relations? Hugo Chávez and the Fifth Republic in Venezuela 19982004 | 206 |
7 Assessing the Relationship between Civilian Control of the Military and the Consolidation of Democracy | 234 |
Notes | 265 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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Page xii - This book is dedicated to them. Finally, I would like to thank my editor at the University of North Carolina Press, Elaine Mainer, for all her support and advice.
Page xiii - These demonstrations helped to foment the climate necessary to back the reforms recommended by the Comision Presidencial para la Reforma del Estado (Presidential Commission for the Reform of the State — Copre) and which led to the legislation favoring decentralization (Gomez Calcano and Lopez Maya 1990).